Does the Keto Diet Slow your Metabolism ? ( Success Story)
My kindergarten picture shows that I was a chubby five-year old. I was active, walking a mile to school and back. But during grade school I became increasingly aware that I was fat. I was a top student, and teachers liked me. I even skipped fourth grade. Increasingly, my solace was in academics and books. I paid as little attention as possible to my physical self. This was made easier by the fact that I had only brothers, no sisters, or even girlfriends, who might have made me feel worse by discussions of body appearance and clothing fashions. My mother did what she could, but it was a losing battle. My father, who had always been overweight since he was a child, became diabetic in his mid 40’s. Then for him began seasons of weight loss and regain, oral medications, and finally insulin, amputations for leg infections, retinopathy with laser treatment, and seven years in a nursing home prior to death from heart failure. I observed all of this, even as I continued to excel ...